The U.S. announcement of drawdown of its forces in Iraq has grabbed great importance on the Iraqi political stage as the country has declared cleansing its territories from ISIS and ending the terrorist group’s self-proclaimed caliphate, eliminating the pretext under which the US-led coalition sent forces to Iraq.

However, the current conditions Iraq is living bear a lot of challenges to Baghdad amid Washington’s insistence to keep its military forces in the country as long as possible. This intent has been exposed by the recent comments made by the American officials who talked about the need for their military to stay long-term in Iraq.

Kata’ib Hezbollah, another anti-ISIS force in Iraq, also came clean on the US stay. Its spokesman stated that the American presence in Iraq is “occupation.” He added that there is no time to debate what the presence of the American military in Iraq should be labeled. He further argued that the US-led alliance was made without Iraq’s will and that Americans entered Iraq uninvited.

After announcing the Pentagon’s stance on the continuation of the US military presence in Iraq, Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah warned Americans about a military confrontation that could take place at any moment.

Jafar al-Husseini, the spokesman of Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah during a speech, stated that “a military confrontation with United States may take place at any moment”… … …

Iraqi Government forces continued advancing towards Oil-fields and a Kurdish Peshmerga Military Base in the Qatash area South of kirkuk, Monday morning… State TV reported Iraqi Army have already taken control of some areas, including Oil-fields, but this has been denied by Kurdish forces… Tensions between the two sides have been brewing since Iraqi Kurds are overwhelmingly voted for secession in a September 25 referendum that Baghdad as illegal… Kurdish Peshmerga forces took control of Oil-rich kirkuk after the Iraqi Army withdrew during a major offensive by the so-called Islamic state terror organisation in 2014…

9th Iraqi Armored Division heading to kirkuk, heavy clashes breakout as Iraqi forces enter the city in industrial zone after several units from the Iraqi Army, Federal Police, and Popular Mobilizations Units(Hashd al-Sa’abi) entered this province in Western Iraq… Meanwhile Iraq-based Afaq TV reported that the Iraqi Army has retaken the Kirkuk Airport, K 1 Base, and Afana Oil-fields from the Peshmerga after the latter withdrew without fight… Also Iraqi forces chased Peshmerga fighters from the two Towns, the kifri and Tuz-khotmato located to the South of Kirkuk city where a large battle is ongoing…

The U.S. warplanes launched airstrikes on Iraqi army troops in the city of Mosul in Nineveh province again, killing tens of government soldiers and injuring many others, informed military sources disclosed.

“Several Iraqi army’s military vehicles, including 8 BMP and 4 Humvee vehicles were destroyed in addition to leaving at least 90 soldiers dead and over 100 others injured in the US airstrikes which took place in al-Moshrefeh town on Friday,” an informed source in the Iraqi army said.

The US airstrikes also resulted in the withdrawal of the Iraqi forces from some newly-liberated districts in Mosul city and a number of Iraqi troops were also captured as a result of the US air raids.

The US warplanes had struck the village of al-Rahyat on November 29 and al-Saheliyeh region on November 21 which resulted in the death and injury of tens of Iraqi army troops and inflicted heavy on Iraq’s infrastructures.

In mid-October, Deputy Chief of the Nineveh Provincial Council Noureddin Qablan announced that the US-led coalition warplanes have launched airstrikes on an army base in Nineveh province, killing several soldiers…>>>…>>>…

Head of the security committee of Kirkuk Provincial Council Ali Musa Yadekar disclosed that the US helped the ISIL terrorists in launching attacks against Kirkuk on Friday. The US planes transferred the ISIL terrorists from Hawijah to Leilan and Daqouq which are mountainous regions empty of security forces in Southern Kirkuk, Yadekar was quoted as saying by the Arabic website of Sputnik news agency on Monday.
Meantime, Ambassador of the International High Commission for Human Rights in the Middle-East Haitham Abu Saeed also said today that the Takfiri terrorists have fled from Mosul to Raqqa and Idlib in Syria with US support…>>>…>>>
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One of ISIL prisoners nabbed by Iraqi forces in Kirkuk confessed that Turkish airplanes brought them from Turkey and dropped them South of Kirkuk, near the village of Sari Tepe, security sources said. The Iraqi security forces have managed to arrest a number of terrorists who attacked Kirkuk province, after the militants blew up and struck governmental headquarters by suicide attacks and clashed with the security forces and the local people,” the security source said, Badr News reported…>>>…>>>
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An airstrike, which targeted a mourning procession in the town of Daquq, Iraqi Northern province of Kirkuk, left at least 20 people killed and 45 more injured, local media reported. According to the Shafaq News media outlet, the airstrike was mistakenly carried out by the US-led coalition while other media reports say the US air forces were responsible for the attack…>>>…>>>

US-backed ‘moderate terrorists’ from Jabhat al-Nusra and other ‘opposition groups’, which operate inside and outside Aleppo, are not going to participate in the humanitarian pause announced by the Syrian and Russian militaries. On October 19, Syria and Russia reopened corridors in Aleppo, giving militants a chance to leave the city during mini-ceasefire scheduled for October 20. In turn, Jabhat al-Nusra (or Jabhat Fatah al-Sham) and its allies relaunched offensive operations in southwestern Aleppo and seized the main part of 1070 Apartment Project. On October 20, militants continued attacks in the area.

The Syrian Air Force delivered a series of airstrikes on Jabhat Fatah al-Sham positions in the provinces of of Latakia and Idlib, bombing terrorists near Zohra Katab Sandou and Tardin in northern Latakia and Hallouz and Um al-Qar in southwestern Idlib. The air raids resulted in elimination of 5 Jabhat Fatah al-Sham tactical units, 1 ammunition depot and at least 3 vehicles equipped with machine guns.

The Russian-made TOS-1A ‘Solntsepyok’ Heavy Flamethrower System was spotted among the Iraqi Federal Police’s artillery units shelling ISIS units deployed in the Shura area near the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul on October 18. TOS-1A systems were successfully used by the Iraqi army during the storm of Fallujah. Now, they are participating in the battle for Mosul…>>>…

Over 30 ISIS terrorists were killed in air strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Air Force in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on October 18.

The air power supported the Syrian army’s operations against ISIS in the area of the Deir Ezzor airbase.

Syrian troops also attacked ISIS units near the Panorama checkpoint. Air strikes on ISIS targets were also reported in the areas of al-Huweijeh al-Sakar, al-Sina’ah, al-Jafreh and al-Mura’yeh. In total, some 45 air strikes were delivered.

The intensification of air raids in eastern Syria came amid reports that ISIS terrorists are massively fleeing from the Iraqi city of Mosul to Syria.

Sources in the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) say The US-led coalition’s warplanes avoid to bomb military convoys of the terrorist group moving from Iraqi to Syria.

Moscow has reportedly responded to this threat, reconstructing the T-4 Military Airport in eastern Homs.

The Russian military had already used the airport as a forward staging post for its helicopter gunships during the operation in Palmyra and the nearby areas. However, the airfield was damaged with ISIS attacks later.

MEANTIME, MEDIA SPOKESMAN OF IRAQ’S JIHAD BATTALIONS SAID THAT THE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF THE US MILITARY ADVISORS IN HIS COUNTRY IS VERY SUSPICIOUS.

Iraqi volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) vowed to confront the presence of the Turkish army troops in Iraq, and said that the increasing number of the US advisors in their country is also suspicious.

“The presence of the Turkish forces in Iraq is deemed as illegal and Hashd al-Shaabi has the power to confront the Turkish occupying forces,” Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi commander Javad al-Talibavi said.

He reiterated that the Iraqi volunteer forces will not tolerate the presence of the Turkish troops in Iraq.

“The U.S. was indifferent when the ISIL had major parts of Iraq under its control and now that the ISIL is nearly finished the U.S. is looking for increasing the number of its troops in Iraq,” he added… … …

The Iraqi fighter jets pounded and destroyed a strategic military base of the Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, IS) terrorist group in the Western part of Anbar province.

The ISIL’s Katiba Tabouk military base in the city of Qaem in Western Anbar province was completely annihilated on Sunday after the Iraqi army received intelligence tips about the exact location of the military base.

Tens of ISIL terrorists were killed and wounded in the Iraqi fighter jets’ air raids on their military positions in Qaem city.

Meantime, the Iraqi warplanes hit hard ISIL’s concentration centers in strategic Heet region located 70 kilometers to the West of al-Ramadi city.

The ISIL’s arms and ammunition depots were also destroyed in the Iraqi airstrikes in Heet region.

Also the Iraqi army’s engineering units continued to defuse bombs and mines laid by the ISIL throughout the city of Fallujah.

A Syrian senior military expert underlined that the Syrian army’s military operations in the Eastern part of Homs province will prevent the Takfiri terrorists from escaping Iraq to Eastern Syria.

The Syrian army’s advances in Eastern Homs is taking place with the goal of cutting the terrorists supply routes in Syria and preventing them from finding a way for escape to Syria from Iraq

The Homs operations will also cut the terrorists’ supply routes in Raqqa province and open up the path for supplying the Syrian army and it allies with military hardware and equipment.

Earlier on Thursday, media reports said that the Syrian army with the support of pro-government forces repulsed terrorists’ attack on army’s defense lines in a key region in the Eastern part of Homs province.

Iraq’s Police Chief on Friday declared full liberation of Fallujah after the two-year-long Daesh (ISIS, ISIL, IS, ) control over the strategic city.

Commander of Iraq’s Federal Police Major General Raed Shaker Judat disclosed that after the liberation of the Fallujah his forces have discovered three different kinds of prisons in the city.
He noted that the first prison was used for torturing and jailing the ordinary people and one of them was used for jailing the ISIL militants.

The Iraqi forces continued their advances to the North of Fallujah after purging terrorists from most of the regions in the city and destroying over 340 of their bomb-laden vehicles used for suicide attacks.

The Iraqi premier also promised that the liberation of Mosul – ISIL’s de facto capital in the country since June 2014 – is very close as it is the Iraqi forces’ “next destination” in their campaign to flush the militants out of the country.

Iraqi forces entered ISIL-held Fallujah, one of the terrorist group’s key strongholds in Iraq after completing a troop buildup around the city, officials told media on Monday.

“The operation to enter Fallujah began on Monday morning,” an Iraqi official told journalists who entered the city with the Iraqi security forces, RT reported.

The Iraqi military officer said the government’s military units began advancing in the city of Fallujah, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, with explosions and heavy gunfire reportedly heard in Fallujah’s Southern Naimiyah district.

Iraqi government-led forces launched an offensive to dislodge ISIL militants from Fallujah a week ago, and have been slicing through ISIL positions ever since.

Iraqi security forces repeated calls for civilians in Fallujah to flee on May 22, but locals say they have been unable to escape, as they are used as human shields by the mercenary-terrorist gangs of Daesh.

The Iraqi popular forces cut ISIL’s main supply route from Iraq to Syria after seizing two more important regions near the city of Sinjar.

The Iraqi forces took full control over the strategic Um al-Diban and Um al-Jaris regions in the Northern parts of Iraq.

The ISIL sustained heavy losses, including losing several of its armored vehicles.

Um al-Diban and Um al-Jaris regions are located in Sinjar countryside near Iraq-Syria borders and they were regarded as one of most important supply routes of the ISIL from Nineveh province in Iraq to Hasaka and Deir Ezzur provinces in Syria.

Ridiculous, if it were not tragic: the US regime tries to hinder in any way the forces that really fight against the Daesh beasts, in anticipation of the worst war scenarios in which such forces could, alone, thwart any new Zionist plot and wahhabi mercenary before reaches the Syrian soil.
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(FNA) ~ Iraqi security sources disclosed on Saturday that Washington is exerting pressure on the Baghdad government to end volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) partnership in war against Daesh (ISIL, ISIS, IS) and dissolve the militia army that has the lion share in the war on terrorism in the country.

“The US government has conveyed the message to the Iraqi government through its diplomats that there is no need to Hashd al-Shaabi forces and their role should come to an end,” a senior Iraqi source said.

Meantime, the Iraqi volunteer forces have reacted to the leaked intel by warning against any regional and international attempts to put an end to their life and operation.

Meantime, the Iraqi volunteer forces have reacted to the leaked intel by warning against any regional and international attempts to put an end to their life and operation.

The US military drones launched airstrikes on the popular forces in an area in Tikrit that had already been purged of terrorists, leaving two dozen casualties.

“In an incident against which we have had warned several times in the past, the US-led coalition attacked the Jund al-Imam Battalion popular forces’ headquarters at Speicher base in Tikrit,” Spokesman for Asaeb Ahl Al-Haq Battalion (one of the popular groups fighting alongside the Iraqi army against the ISIL) Naeim al-Aboudi said on Sunday.

“The delay in operations to liberate Ramadi and Fallujah cities in al-Anbar province is the result of the US interference,” Commander of Imam Khamenei Battalion Haidar al-Hosseini al-Ardavi said.

“The American forces have recently expanded their heliborne operations in Huweija, Beiji and Sharqat in the Northern parts of Salahuddin province with the goal of assisting the ISIL terrorist group,” Representative of Iraq’s State of Law Coalition at the parliament, Awatif Naima, said in a press conference.

The Iraqi Army, the Counter Terrorism units, the Federal police, and Anbar tribes entered the city of Ramadi that was occupied by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” group (DAESH, ISIS) for several months.

To their biggest surprise, only a few bodies of the terrorist group were found when intelligence gathering by the U.S led coalition and the Iraqi intelligence service confirmed the presence of around 2000 fighters in the city until days before the final assault.

Six ISIS fighters were arrested while trying to flee Ramadi among the 442 civilians who left the city one day before the final assault on the city center.

The same phenomena of “ISIS evaporation” was registered in Sinjar when 7500 Kurds, supported by the U.S Air Force, occupied the key northern Iraqi city, finding a very small number of ISIS fighters in it.

A commander of volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) disclosed the US plots to evacuate ISIL leaders from the city of Ramadi as Iraqi army and popular troops are completing victory over the terrorist group.

“The delay in operations to liberate Ramadi and Fallujah cities in al-Anbar province is the result of the US interference,” Commander of Imam Khamenei Battalion Haidar al-Hosseini al-Ardavi told FNA on Thursday.

“It seems that the US intends to evacuate the ISIL terrorist group’s infamous ringleaders secretly (with helicopters) from Ramadi to unknown places,” he added.

(ENG) ~ Washington evacuates the leaders of Iraq Daech. ~ The slowdown in operations of al-Shaabi Hashd (Iraqi Shiite militias) against the jihadists of the Islamic State in Ramadi and Falluja is due to the interference of the United States, having probably decided to evacuate terrorist leaders.

Several Iraqi soldiers have either been killed or injured as a US airstrike hits their base in the western Anbar Province.

According to Iraq’s joint operations command, which oversees the campaign against the Daesh Takfiris, said in a statement on Friday that forces from Iraq’s 3rd Division 55th Brigade were hit by a US airstrike at around 1:00 PM (1000 GMT) as they were advancing on the positions of the terrorists near Amriyat al-Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Popular Forces’ Top Commander Warns to Target US Bases, Turkey’s Military Interests in Iraq

Head of Iraq’s Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri said his forces are fully prepared to launch strikes at the US military bases and Turkish troops in Iraq.

“We will target all the military bases of the US in Iraq,” the Arabic-language al-Mosle news website quoted al-Ameri as saying in reaction to the US interferences in Iraq.

“The recent statements of US Secretary of Defense about dispatch of elite forces to Northern Iraq on the pretext of fighting the ISIL is aimed at eliminating the quadrilateral coalition of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq from the battle against the ISIL,” Spokesman of Iraq’s Volunteer Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) Karim al-Nouri said

The Iraqi security forces have seized 2 German planes at Baghdad Airport that were carrying weapons to the Kurdistan region illegally and without prior information and permission of the central government in Baghdad.

The captured planes were carrying arms worth $5 million to the city of Erbil in Kurdistan region without prior coordination or information of Baghdad, the Kurdish-language Kurd Press news agency reported on Saturday.

The US and some other coalition members have been supplying arms to different ‘actors’ in Iraq.

A spokesman of Iraq’s popular forces underlined that the US pressures don’t affect the popular forces’ determination to liberate Iraq’s territories from the terrorists’ hands.

“The popular forces don’t take permission neither from the US nor from any other countries for participating in the operations to free Mosul, and all these regions and Iraqi cities will be liberated by the Iraqi forces,” Kaldani stressed.

The Iraqi government has seized two planes of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition member states that were carrying weapons to the Kurdistan Region without prior coordination or information of Baghdad, Head of the Iraqi Parliament’s Security and Defense Commission Hakem al-Zameli disclosed on Monday.

The US and some other coalition members have been supplying arms to different actors in Iraq.

During the last year, Iraqi officials have on different occasions blasted the US and its allies for supplying the ISIL in Syria with arms and ammunition under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group.

Also in October, the Iraqi forces discovered US-made military hardware and ammunition from terrorists in the town of Beiji.

“The military hardware and weapons had been airdropped by the US-led warplanes and choppers for the ISIL in the nearby areas of Beiji,” military sources said.

Iraqi security sources disclosed that the US-led coalition’s airstrikes have once again killed 22 army and volunteer forces on Tuesday.

The US-led anti-ISIL coalition targeted the Iraqi forces’ positions instead of ISIL terrorists in the Western parts of Iraq.

“The US planes have dropped weapons for the ISIL terrorists in the areas under ISIL control and even in those areas that have been recently liberated from the ISIL control to encourage the terrorists to return to those places,” Coordinator of Iraqi popular forces Jafar al-Jaberi

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The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel.

The Zionist officer is ranked colonel and had participated in the DAESH-ISIL gangs terrorist operations.

The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the Zionist regime’s army with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434

“As the ISIL commanders captured in Iraqi popular forces’ recent military operations have confessed, the US supports for the terrorist groups are not limited to the dispatch of logistical support,” Al-Hosseini said

He reiterated that the US has provided the ISIL with intelligence about the Iraqi forces’ positions and targets.

“ISIL commanders trusted the US officials who had assured them that the Iraqi forces would not attack Fallujah because the US had urged the Iraqi government to prevent the popular forces from entering Fallujah and raid Beiji instead; hence the terrorists left Fallujah for Beiji to stay on the alert in there,” Al-Hosseini added.

Al-Hosseini had also stated on Wednesday that his forces plan to win back the city of Ramadi only after expelling the American forces from Anbar province.

“Our forces have two operations underway; first seizing Ramadi from ISIL and second keeping away the American forces from Anbar province,” al-Hosseini told FNA.

Iraqi security and popular forces held captive an Israeli colonel from Golani Brigade along with a number of ISIL terrorists.

“The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel,” a commander of Iraq’s popular mobilization forces said on Thursday.

“The Zionist officer is ranked colonel and had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group’s terrorist operations,” he added.

Noting that he was arrested along with a number of ISIL terrorists, the commander said, “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the Zionist regime’s army with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

The Iraqi security forces said the captured colonel has already made shocking confessions

Spokesman of Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) Jafar al-Hosseini underlined that his forces are planning to win back the city of Ramadi after expelling the American forces from Anbar province.

“Our forces have two operations underway; first seizing Ramadi from ISIL and second keeping away the American forces from Anbar province”, al-Hosseini say.

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Iraq Moves to Exclude US from Anti-ISIL Campaign

Deputy Secretary General of Iraq’s Badr Organization Abdolkarim al-Ansari blasted the US-led Anti-ISIL Coalition’s poor performance in fighting the Takfiri terrorists, and said his country does no more want Washington’s help in the war against the militant group.

ISIL (ISIS-DAESH) Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been transferred to Turkey for treatment through a series of coordination measures by the CIA after the notorious terrorist leader was severely injured in the Iraqi army’s airstrike on his convoy in Western Anbar province, media reports disclosed on Wednesday.

Al-Manar: “The CIA has drone coordination with the Turkish intelligence organization to transfer al-Baghdadi to Turkey”

The Iraqi army and volunteer forces discovered US-made military hardware and ammunition, including anti-armor missiles, in terrorists’ positions and trenches captured during the operations in the Fallujah region in Al-Anbar province.

The Iraqi forces found a huge volume of advanced TOW-II missiles from the Takfiri terrorists in al-Karama city of Fallujah.

The missiles were brand new and the ISIL had transferred them to Fallujah to use them against the Iraqi army’s armored units.

Iraqi officials have on different occasions blasted the US and its allies for supplying the ISIL in Syria with arms and ammunition under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group.

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